Travels with Vanny

Experience, observations and insights found while motoring about to fly fishing spots in a '87 Westfalia V.W. Trips often include some sort of collection of materials for or promotion of my artwork. Rivers of Northern CA and Oregon figure highly in the scenery.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

In this work I was exploring the most basic of motives of painting. I imagined communicating the the essence of a fundamental human invention - the chair - to something intelligent but not necessarily human. Perhaps, if I were to describe a chair to a being from a world without gravity.

Chairis a work about form, texture and communication. I had in mind to express some facts about a chair to an intelligent being ( perhaps extraterrestrial ) who had no experience, knowledge or need for a chair. It is more about the purpose of Painting than the thing known as “chair”.

In this work I was exploring the most basic motives of painting. I imagined communicating the the essence of a fundamental human invention ( the chair ) to something intelligent but not human. Perhaps, if I were to describe a chair to a being from a world without gravity.

Chairis a work about form, texture and communication. I had in mind trying to express some facts about a chair to an intelligent being ( perhaps extraterrestrial ) who had no experience, knowledge or need for a chair. It is more about the purpose of Painting than the thing known as “chair”.

Friday, December 25, 2015

Thursday, December 17, 2015

The Art of the Spirit: Epiphany show continues until the end of this week at O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, so please remind any friends/family who have not yet seen the show to come visit before this Saturday at 2:00 pm!